Verifying that agent interactions in a multiagent system (MAS) are compliant to a given global protocol is of paramount importance for most systems, and is mandatory for safety-critical applications. Runtime verification requires a proper formalism to express such a protocol, a possibly non intrusive mechanism for capturing agent interactions, and a method for verifying that captured interactio...

To enhance the evaluation of the reliability recently featured many of the approaches linking the probability and fuzzy logic, the multi agent system can provide a connection between fuzzy logic and probability. In this article represents a new application of multi-agent model for evaluating the reliability indices of generation power system. Using agents of the probability for determining capa...

In this paper we describe Pellucid Agent Architecture for experience knowledge management. This architecture is suitable for public organizations, which enact administration processes. Pellucid captures knowledge from experienced employees, explores new knowledge and assists unexperienced employee by providing relevant knowledge. Pellucid spontaneously gives advices (recomended contacts, useful...

Robotics is an area of research inwhich the paradigmofMulti-Agent Systems (MAS) can prove to be highly useful. Multi-Agent Systems come in the form of cooperative robots in a team, sensor networks based on mobile robots, and robots in Intelligent Environments, to name but a few. However, the development of Multi-Agent Robotic Systems (MARS) still presents major challenges. Over the past decade,...

This paper presents a Java agent application framework and shows its example through the implementation of an agent application service. This framework comprised of agent, agent system, agent master and agent manager components. Each component is connected to others via an agent interface, and messages are passed through these interface points. By using this framework, it is possible to deploy ...

Development of acceptable agent-based, distributed systems requires secure techniques for agent migration and agent communication. Several Java-based agent frameworks provide these functions to greater or lesser extents. This paper describes an agent distribution framework for intercommunicating agents using Java which targets several key goals: 1) Provide an agent dispatch mechanism to selecte...

Current agent platforms do not provide agents the means for reasoning about expected behaviours during interactions. This lack is due to the absence of design primitives to explicitly shape interaction patterns as first-class resources. This work presents 2COMM4JADE, a framework based on JADE and CArtAgO platforms that allows definition of social relationships among parties, represented by soci...

In order to effectively develop multi-agent systems (MAS) software, a set of models, technologies and tools are needed to support flexible and precise specification and implementation of agent-to-agent conversations, standardized conversation protocols, and corresponding agent behaviors. Experience trying to build complex protocols with the ZEUS and JADE agent toolkits motivated a substantial e...

6 Process of development The agent framework was developed between February and May 2007, as part of the author’s Masters thesis. 7 Resources used • Nuance RealSpeak Solo for TTS speech generation, http://www.nuance.com/realspeak/solo • Charamel CharaVirld2 character environment, and CharaSpy debugger, http://www.charamel.de • Jess: the Java Expert System Shell, http://herzberg.ca.sandia.gov/je...

Multiagent systems form promising paradigm for software development in complex application domains, but unfortunately tend to be complex systems themselves. The existing gap between analysis and design of multiagent systems and their implementation leads to an increased programming effort. In this paper, we present a graphical tool which tries to bridge this gap by integrating the design and im...